— Bob-a-job-alog-a-roonie

…once you get past the hard part.

We all eat 3x more than what we actually need. With time and care it is possible to reduce your intake without any loss of function. Ask anyone with a lap-band. They have it easier because they can’t physically eat too much. To do it without surgery probably depends on your mental make-up. But if you can do it, losing weight is easy.

If you already eat the bare minimum required to function the same as anyone else, on 1/3 of the food, then reducing it a little bit more means losing weight. Over 18 months I naturally put on around 5kg (I don’t exercise, and drink a fair bit…). Then I lose in over 2 months by skipping every 2nd breakfast. As someone who only eats when I need to, I am very used to the feeling of hunger. Hunger gives me strength, when I am in the mood.

So if you are lucky that you can, try just eating less each day. When I was a kid it was meat and three veg, plus dessert, every night. Now, a burger and chips is too much food. Anyone who has the willpower to, say, quit smoking, can eat less also. So give it a go!

The fake burger industry is obsessed with the idea being vegan. It is philosophical.

What if it was climate change?

That is a cause that could save our species, rather than being about a philosophy.

The popularity of beef is causing deforestation – fact
Deforestation leads to global warming – fact

Shifting from caged chicken to free range chicken makes beef relatively cheaper – fact?
Creating fake beef from chicken should reduce the demand for beef!
And it would surely be easier to replicate the texture of beef by using another form of meat…

Two parallel worlds. Because either can avoid or trigger the tipping point.

I love vegans, can’t stand militant vegans (there’s a war a’comin’), wish I was vegetarian, love meat, would choose to eat 7 year old mutton over lamb, and love a good argument.

In some places avocados are produced in a way detrimental to bees. Does that make vegans hypocrites? No, they are doing the best they can – they can’t ever be 100% vegan.

I would vote for a totally vegetarian world, but I won’t choose it on my own. I would happily live where you had to kill (and dress etc) what you ate, but those places are rare. So I am like most people in a modern world, with so much other stuff going on – I take the lazy, easy, what I feel like approach to food.

SPECTRUM

The Carnivore > Vegan scale is like sexuality, it is a sliding scale full of confusion, debate and denial. Hopefully we will decide that everyone is on the spectrum somewhere, and there is no right or wrong. Unlike sexuality we can make a conscious choice though, and so your place on the diet spectrum can change. And is more likely to change with education and (perhaps) religion.